skate journal: dog park then the streets with bratcher (march 28, 2026)
Met up with Bratcher at dog park. Fergs was there too. Was a pretty quick and fun session. I hadn’t done a whole lot before Jack wanted to move on to the streets. A slow front 50 on the bench, halfcab noseslide, some crook attempts on the top shelf. Fergs and I hucked some flippers. I was on the 8.5/14.25 with thunders. It seemed alright.
Then we went to a 4 flat 3 flat 3 that Jack wanted to check out. It was pretty gnar with very little space in between sets. We didn’t even think of trying the 4 to start because the landing was so close to the next 3. I managed to ollie both the 3s at least.
Then a quick stop at the snowboard jump since we were so close. I took a few tries to get a kickflip.
Then to the 3 stair area. I was playing with lines, Jack was rattling off tricks down the 3. I had a line of halfcab flip, terrible ollie a manhole then front 180 the 3. Jack rattled off 180, switch 180, halfcab, pop shove, one foot, switch ollie. It was crazy how willing he was to commit. I was hyped on a front 180 up 2nd try then took forever to kickflip down it. I did commit several times before the roll away so had a few slams.
Jack left. I looked at the little ledge by the trash cans and did a couple of basics. Then noticed another area nearby I had never hit before. The ledge was really tall and a noseslide was hard. Someone good could line it out with a trick down a long 4 stair.
Fun day skating in the streets!
(setup 7/10 null 20 years 8.5/14.25, jessup ultra, thunder hollow lite 149, bones stf 52mm v1 103a, new balance numeric 440 wide highs black size 12 half insole and currex runpro insole)
(pain level 4/10)